After the May adjustment point system and the fines going to Germany next change of traffic rules.
From July drivers will have in Germany into cars safety vests for infringement be fined. On the same date is also tightening environmental rules for entry to some German cities, in which he will not be allowed car with red and yellow emission plaque.
Inclusion of reflective vest in the car compulsory equipment should improve the safety of drivers in case of an accident or breakdown must get out of the car, because motorists in the neighboring vehicles to see better. The new regulation does not specify whether the vest orange, yellow or green. Unlike Austria, the German regulations do not require a jacket for each passenger car; will be enough for one vehicle.
If the driver does not have a reflective vest in the car, threatened him at the roadside fine of 15 Euros (410 dollars). German automobile club ADAC but warns that if the driver vest when leaving the vehicle he not, it is not an offense. In such a case, but probably will not be entitled to compensation from the insurance company if it hurt a passing car.
Since July also tighten the rules for entry to some German cities. While they have yet to cars with three types of emission plaques, a new entry will be permitted only vehicles with a green plaque that indicates the engine with the least burden on the environment. The measure concerns 21 towns in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Longer time applies a similar arrangement, for example, in Berlin.
Type emission plaques is determined by the amount of harmful substances that vehicle during the operation discharged into the atmosphere. The green plaque entitled cars with gasoline engines put into operation since 1993, passenger car diesel engine was put into operation since 2006 and trucks put into service since October 2006. Green Plaque also automatically receives all electric vehicles.
In the Czech Republic it is possible to obtain a plaque at most stations technical inspection after submission of the large technical certificate. According to the Central Automobile Club CR price plaques around 300 crowns, their validity is limited in time.
When the driver without high visibility vest pulled into a defined low-emission zone without emission plaques or worse degree than permitted by the city, it faces a fine of 80 Euros (2200 dollars).
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